look coldly upon

Example Sentences

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Here was a man who possessed a title, was handsome, rich, and of assured social position: it would take an extraordinary American girl to look coldly upon his attentions.

From Man on the Box by MacGrath, Harold

I could see that the elders began to look coldly upon me.

From Literary Tours in The Highlands and Islands of Scotland by Holmes, Daniel Turner

That there should be a disposition here to look coldly upon the old-fashioned classical education is not wonderful.

From Town Life in Australia by Twopeny, Richard Ernest Nowell

They are passionately devoted to each other, but as a rule look coldly upon the stranger.

From An Isle in the Water by Tynan, Katharine

She wipes her eyes, and, with a look of commiseration, turns from the man whose business it is to look coldly upon unfortunate dead men.

From Our World, Or, the Slaveholder's Daughter by Adams, F. Colburn (Francis Colburn)